Yep. They got what they wanted, but they lost what they had.
Posted on 07/06/2008 9:45:04 AM PDT by Nextrush
The crisis in Zimbabwe is "infecting the whole of southern Africa, UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said after visiting refugees.
On a visit to Johannesburg, S Africa, he said victims of political repression were fleeing there in their thousands.
He said it was now "imperative" that there was a new government in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe was declared the winner of a one-candidate run-off election, amid reports of the violent intimidation of his opponents.
After meeting some of the 2,000 refugees who have taken refuge in the Central Methodist Church in downtown Johannesburg, Mr. Miliband said: "This is now a crisis infecting the whole of southern Africa and one that is a man-made tragedy from the top of the Zimbabwean regime."
Tough sanctions
He said: "No-one who meets the people here could do anything other than redouble their efforts to secure international consensus that the Mugabe regime is not a legitimate representation of the will of the people of Zimbabwe."
He said the international community has to "rally behind" tough United Nations Security Council resolutions next week in New York to target individuals within the Mugabe regime......
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
I say give the refugees guns and send them back to deal with Mugabe and his thugs.
But that's not the Politically Correct way, so let the killing and starving continue in Zimbabwe.
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Yawn, BBC, flagship of MSM and the Captains of BS. Would not believe one word that ever comes out of their abode.
The people of Zimbabwe deserve more than politically correct sympathy from the BBC, the UN or various political leaders.
They should be given guns. A million refugees with guns can walk back in the country and deal with Mugabe and his cronies.
Dictator’s don’t have good retirement plans. Let’s hope Mugabe finds this out soon.
It seems to me that the world's dictators and ruling thugs pretty much thumb their noses at the UN. After all, how many of them are afraid to engage in a pillow fight.
>He said it was now “imperative” that there was a new government in Zimbabwe...
Well, THAT will really change things...
It is a socialists dream world.
Obama knows how to handle Mugabe, He’ll gather the best minds, Bill, Hill, Maddie Albright, Warren Christopher, Colin Powell, Al Gore, Jimma Carter, and the rest of our best and brightest, and have all night bull sessions, to study how to best set up a coalition to study the problem, and offer options, if that’s what it takes.
So another area of British domination is falling into oblivion. YAWN!
This is news?
Does the BBC know the meaning of "infecting"?
When a pathology is the norm, the language requires something new and external, like freedom, personal initiative, industriousness and self-reliance to be deemed an "invasion".
Just saying.
“Dictator’s don’t have good retirement plans.”
Didn’t Idi retire to Fwance?
Well, self-determination was the magic bullet. Everything should be peachy, now.
How long's it been? Two, three generations?
They are self-ruled, now. That's all that matters. That's the be-all, end-all.
Just ask the non-African cultural idiots and morons who made it happen.
Mugabe IS the infection, and the cure is multiple applications of the .223 vaccine, on full auto, for no less than 30 minutes at point blank range.
let the africans do it.
they resent outside intervention.
Hard to see what this has got to do with the BBC, since this is directly reported speech by Milliband...
Evidently because we British aren't in charge of it anymore.
They want us to take over again, but the answer's no. Zimbabwe wanted independence, they got it, they're keeping it. Not our problem.
Let it remain as a marker of what happens when you give up on property rights and the rule of law.
Well, I don't know if they wanted "independence" so much as they wanted Communism, which is what they got. Private property ceased to exist; Zimbabwe's government got to say who lived where, instead.
But I do agree with you that it's their problem. They got what they wanted and an outside solution shouldn't be imposed on them.
Yes, but that’s just before the US becomes identical to Zimbabwe. Obama will make us exactly like any black Dem governed city in the US (a dysfunctional, race-obsessed dump) and exactly like any leftist black governed country in the world, ranging from Haiti to Zimbabwe (a terrorist stew).
I don’t care about people’s color - if we could get a black conservative here, it would be wonderful. But the Dem power structure has undermined black conservatives and they can’t even get a hearing.
WAWA - West Africa Wins Again.
From what I hear its no Picnic living in England with your elected liberals appeasing the immigrant horde.
Yeah, like Liberia. Some people can’t handle it.
Yep. They got what they wanted, but they lost what they had.
Life spans down from 57 years to what...30?! Net food exporter down to a net food importer?!
If either Obama or Hillary is elected in November, the same can be said for the good ole U.S. of A in about 6 months to a year.
I understand that Obama appears to be the Democrat candidate but Hillary only suspended her run for the nomination.
Even as I type this the Clinton crime cartel is formulating a plan to take Obama out. Whether they will be successful only time will tell.
Zimbabwe is much better off under Mugabe.
Dont you remember the hellhole the place was under the control of those fascist neo-Nazi Rhodesian thugs?
Milliband did not write the headline
Hey, you forgot to give credit to Jimmah Carter!!
Saudi Arabia.
My G_D, I don't think hardly anyone realizes how exactly right you are. We are in for major problems whether he is elected or not!
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